Top 25 Health Care Startup Investors in Colombia in October 2023

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• AvoMD — AvoMD is reimagining clinical decision support with interactive point-of-care software, available standalone and via EHR integrations, and seamless content building tools.
• Medwise.ai — Medwise.ai is the Google for doctors.
• Pear Suite — Pear Suite enables anyone—community health workers, other healthcare staff, and volunteers—to assess and address the social drivers of health for older adults in a scalable, cost-effective, and person-centered way.

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• 1DOC3 — 1doc3 is a e-health platform that connects 490 million of Spanish speaking people with licensed and trusted doctors. Users find personalized answers to their health related questions. Doctors build their online reputation, find new patients and create the biggest health related questions and answers curated database in Spanish. The Platform isavailable via web, App, SMS and USSD, allowing the entire population to have access to a Doctor no matter where they are, or even if they don't have internet access.
• EPICA — EPICA is the AI company that gives companies unprecedented power for decision making by detecting patterns of behavior of audiences in real time.
• Tpaga — Tpaga is a mobile wallet for unbanked consumers in Latin America. Currently in Colombia and Mexico.In Latin America, more than 50% do not have credit cards or bank accounts, but what they do have is a cellphone. Tpaga allows consumers to store money via cash kiosk ( 4,000 in our network) and then use it to pay utility bills, cell phone top-up,supermarket and even gas station merchants. We have become the first mobile wallet in Latin America to allow consumers to pay groceries without having a bank account, and allowing unbanked commerces to start receiving payment without have POS systems.

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• Clinikally — Video consult top skin & hair doctors online with the expertise of over 30,000 patients. Shop with us & get the finest skin & hair care products now!
• Anchor — Anchor is a Lagos-based banking-as-a-service platform for African businesses. Anchor provides APIs and infrastructure to build, embed and launch powerful financial products in a secure and scalable way.
• Vellum — Vellum is the development platform for production-worthy large language model applications.

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• Upstream Bio — Upstream Bio focuses on developing an antibody therapy for the treatment of severe asthma. Upstream Bio was founded in 2004 and was headquartered in the United States.
• Vicore Pharma — Vicore Pharma is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing innovative medicines for severe lung disorders. It develops drugs that act through the AT2 receptor. The company’s drug candidate C21 aims to improve the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a rare disease for which C21 has been granted orphan drug designation both in the EUand the US. In addition, C21 is explored pre-clinically in a number of rare diseases where the AT2 receptor plays an important role. The company is based in Astra Zeneca’s Bioventurehub in Mölndal.
• ArriVent Biopharma — Leveraging Global Discoveries, Arrivent Biopharma is Building a Unique Handpicked Pipeline GroundedIn Innovative Science

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• Cubbo — Cubbo is a Latin American technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. We’re building the largest urban warehouse fulfillment network throughout LatAm, which allows us to be the only solution in the region to be able to do same-day fulfillment. Cubbo’s software is fully integrated with e-commerce platforms,including Shopify, V-TEX, Mercado Libre, and many more.Our strategy for our urban fulfillment network is that we repurpose real estate assets (e.g., unused brick-and-mortar outlets or abandoned strip malls) and turn them into spaces suited for new industries, such as urban distribution spaces for e-commerce businesses.
• Monto — Monto is a mobile application that offers staff the flexibility to collect their already worked salary before the company's payday. Monto reduces financial stress and improves the quality of life of employees. Monto improves satisfaction, productivity, and retention in the workforce.
• Aflore — Aflore is a financial services company empowering the un-banked of Colombia (65% of the population) to achieve financial goals. Aflore identifies and partners with trusted financial advisors within communities and mobilizes them with support and tools to distribute loans and financial products within their networks. The company was founded in2012 and is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia.

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• Celes — Celes offers AI-powered solutions to transform marketing, finance, sales, and supply chain, which are critical pain points for retailers. Celes assists clients in better understanding their customers in order to improve their campaigns, promotions, and communications. This aids in increasing customer retention, average ticket price, and units perticket. Celes analyzes and processes data to return the best purchases, prices, and promotions.
• Yumari — Wholesale Buying from Latin America Made Easy
• Hackmetrix — Hackmetrix is a platform that helps you improve your security, get certifications like ISO 27001, and comply with industry regulations like PCI. Also, we provide Pentest to reduce the risk of cyberattacks.

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• Peiky - vendoporchat.com — Peiky empowers the social commerce and provides the tools to manage and optimize the social sales cycle.
• Fitpal — Los mejores gimnasios y centros fitness
• Bold — Bold creates financial tools that allow users to increase sales by receiving card payments. The company was founded by José Vélez, Ana María Sandoval, Enríque Ramírez, Jorge Ulloa, and Sergio Vergara in 2019 and is headquartered in Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia.

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• Vaas — Manage debt capital - A cross-border platform for the emerging private debt market. We build with the future of private debt in mind.
• Assis — Assis goal is to empower business owners by helping them grow their companies through technology that gives customers an amazing experience each and every time they connect with them.
• Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service

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• Devengo — Light-speed transfers. Our Instant Payments API enables seamless integration to automate payouts to your customers in Europe and the UK.
• Plexigrid — We provide tailored solutions for electricity systems by using data analysis and optimization technology.
• BrandLovrs — BrandLovrs provides a one-of-a-kind model for gamifying influencer marketing campaigns Brands may use the BrandLovrs platform to collaborate with a large number of producers for scalable and gamified influencer marketing.

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• Tonder — Tonder is a payments capability with a platform to manage payment provider connections, smart routing, reporting, and more. They manage multiple payment providers and eliminate the associated complications.
• BrandLovrs — BrandLovrs provides a one-of-a-kind model for gamifying influencer marketing campaigns Brands may use the BrandLovrs platform to collaborate with a large number of producers for scalable and gamified influencer marketing.
• Legal Karma — We're building a future where you go to your financial provider for your legal needs.

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• Fairplay — Fairplay is a performance-based financing platform that supports and helps e-Commerce companies to grow by advancing revenue for marketing spend. It offers funding in exchange for a steady share of revenues until the capital is paid back plus a flat fee. Fairplay was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Mexico City.
• Destácame — Destacame is the first behavior-based credit score in Latin America.
• HealthAtom — HealthAtom is a healthcare software platform that design innovative healthcare solutions that allow the clinical industry to advance in the use of administrative technologies. They dentalink and medilink software for better healthcare services for patients.

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• 1DOC3 — 1doc3 is a e-health platform that connects 490 million of Spanish speaking people with licensed and trusted doctors. Users find personalized answers to their health related questions. Doctors build their online reputation, find new patients and create the biggest health related questions and answers curated database in Spanish. The Platform isavailable via web, App, SMS and USSD, allowing the entire population to have access to a Doctor no matter where they are, or even if they don't have internet access.

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• 1DOC3 — 1doc3 is a e-health platform that connects 490 million of Spanish speaking people with licensed and trusted doctors. Users find personalized answers to their health related questions. Doctors build their online reputation, find new patients and create the biggest health related questions and answers curated database in Spanish. The Platform isavailable via web, App, SMS and USSD, allowing the entire population to have access to a Doctor no matter where they are, or even if they don't have internet access.
• BEWE (formerly miora) — Founded in 2016 and launched in five countries — Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile — BEWE operates a SaaS platform for beauty & wellness centers.
• EnjoyHQ — Whether you're focused on UI, UX Research, Design, or CX, with the UserTesting Platform you can get customer feedback to improve digital experiences and drive innovation

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• doc-doc — Accede a los mejores especialistas en medicina, cuando y donde quieras.
• FLOORFY — Real estate software to create virtual tours. The new way to show your portfolio of properties from anywhere and at any time. Know it!
• Zameen.com — Zameen, the leading property portal based in Pakistan - offering the highest levels of service to property buyers sellers landlords tenants alike and to real estate agents in Karachi Lahore Islamabad and all over Pakistan. We are providing quality property - commercial plots, lands and markets - villas - apartments - bungalows - home buying and villa rentals.

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• doc-doc — Accede a los mejores especialistas en medicina, cuando y donde quieras.
• Ruedata — Por medio de un software especializado en recolección y procesamiento de datos de llantas, Ruedata entrega resultados reales y tangibles de ahorro en uso de llantas, eficiencias en los costos de flotas de transporte de carga y pasajeros. Adicional mente se contribuye al medio ambiente minimizando el impacto al dejar de emitir toneladas de CO2.
• Tributi — Tributi is a Colombian fintech start-up backed by Y Combinator. It is drastically reducing tax compliance friction for individuals in Latin America by automating tax filing preparation.

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• Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
• micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
• Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.

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• Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
• Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
• NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

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• Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
• Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
• NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

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• Minoa — Pricing & Value Management for B2B SaaS Companies
• Campus — Live courses with top professors.
• Pylon — Talk to your customers over Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Discord? Meet Pylon. We'll help you scale your sales, success, and support processes over chat and integrate that data back into your existing systems.

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• Lizza — Finnu is a financial services technology company based out of Barcelona, Spain, giving its users access to affordable asset-backed consumer loans via its mobile app.Finnu leverages machine learning and alternative phone usage data points, as well as mobile device management (MDM) technology to deliver credit to those, who are usually overlookedby other lenders. With Finnu, users can not only fully digitally apply and receive loans via their phones, but use their phones as collaterals to significantly reduce interest rates. Finnu is backed and supported by top-tier venture capital funds from Europe and Latin America.
• GuruHotel — Automated hotel website in under 60 seconds
• Saludtools — Saludtools is a digital platform that improves access, quality and reliability of medical services for thousands of patients in Latin America. Our innovative and friendly technology breaks the barriers that prevent a better medical attention. We are about making outstanding healthcare accessible for everyone.

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• Andrena — Andrena is a developer of an internet distribution platform designed to offer high-speed internet at reduced costs.The company works directly with internet providers who provide internet for universities, hospitals, financial services and other users with heavy data needs and leverage their existing fiber networks to deploy a series of antennas toblanket a geography with internet access, allowing customers and businesses to tap into a faster network wirelessly.
• Descope — Add passwordless authentication, user management, and authorization to your app with a few lines of code. Choose from our drag-and-drop workflows, SDKs, or APIs.
• Harmonya — The all-in-one AI-powered product data enrichment, categorization, and insights platform for CPGs and retailers

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• Lumu — Measure compromise in real time with Lumu. Detect incidents and threats before they cause damage. Network detection and response solution built for proficient cybersecurity operations, recommended by industry experts.
• Simetrik — Automate repetitive data reconciliation processes without any coding knowledge
• smartBeemo — smartBeemo is an online education platform focused on reducing the knowledge gap of modern skills, in the Spanish speaking communities. We created an online education platform that seeks to solve this problem through-out exceptional online programs, corporate trainings and events, developed by professionals in the industry who are entrepreneurs,influencers, marketing agency leaders, technology developers and educators.

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• Hume AI — The AI toolkit to measure, understand, and improve how technology affects human emotion.
• Momentu — Corporate mental health and emotional wellness platform for Latin America
• Vitalize Care — A wellbeing platform designed by clinicians for clinicians.

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• busuu — Study a new language online with Busuu's award-winning courses. Learn together with native speakers in Busuu's community.
• Paired — Paired is your guide to improve your relationship via fun daily questions, couple quizzes, couple games and relationship advice. Try the Paired couples app free now.
• Titanium Sports Nutrition — We make superior sports nutrition products for every interval of sport to help athletes fuel past their limits. Our products are natural, great-tasting and clinically formulated and scientifically proven to harness the unique power within each athlete and fortify it against fatigue, dehydration and burnout. Join us!

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• Bipi — Bipi is a car subscription startup offering consumers a hassle-free alternative to car ownership with fully-flexible, all-inclusive monthly subscriptions to quality new and used cars for a single, all-inclusive monthly payment and a digital-first, 100% online transaction process. Its platform lets users book cars, subscribe, swap, and cancel it atany point in time that enables customers to revolutionize the way they access cars.Bipi was co-founded by Hans Christ and Alejandro Vigaray in 2017 and it is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
• Kinedu — Expert designed playtime ideas, milestone assessments, parenting content, toy recommendations, and live sessions with experts tailored to your baby's age and developmental stage. We're serious about play!
• Lentesplus — Lentesplus.com brings the Latin American contact lens market online and into the 21st century, offering competitive prices between 20% and 30% below market standards. The company offers clients ease and efficiency, delivering the correct product straight to their homes or offices, in many cases on the same day as the order was placed. With a strongfocus on customer service, Lentesplus makes reordering contact lenses as simple as two clicks. Currently have operations in Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Argentina